The Minds of the West
Subtitle: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780807848074
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil rights & citizenship; Ethnography; Immigration & emigration; Social history; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - 19th Century/Old West; History - U.S.; History; Sociology; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; Emigration & Immigration; Ethnology; Immigrants; Social Science : Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science : Emigration & Immigration; United States - 19th Century
First sentence: The westward migration across the Appalachian range in the antebellum era was a phenomenon of singular importance to the development of the United States.